Gadget of the Week

The Best Alternatives to Cloud Storage

We're coming to expect anytime, anywhere access to our digital files—documents, music, movies, all of it. Cloud-based services like Apple iCloud or Dropbox have become a popular way to do this. Just upload your files to the Dropbox servers, for instance, and you can open them from anywhere and with any device—smartphone, desktop, or laptop. But in this age of Internet snooping, some folks are getting squeamish about shipping their digital valuables to vast server farms. Rightly or wrongly, they are feeling vulnerable.